Garment-supporter.



finira srarns rarnrvr cierren HANS E. GRABAU, 0F LONG ISLAND CITY, NEX/V YORK, ASSIG-NOR T0 GABRIEL ABRAHABI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARLVIENT-SUPPORTER.

Specication of Letters Patent. Patented Sept.. lill, 1917.

Application led October Il, 1916. Serial No. 123,686.

To all whom it may Concern.'

Be it known that I, HANS E. GRABAU, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Long Island City, Queens county, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specilication.

The invention relates to garment clasps and 'more particularly to clasps used in connection with hose 'supporters or garters. The objects of the invention are to provide such a clasp that may be easily manufactured from a flexible nonmetallic material such as Celluloid; to provide a structure which is specially adapted to be made from a exible non-metallic material such as oelluloid, the device being so arranged that the parts will be sufficiently strong although made of such material; to provide an eX- ceedingly simple and yet etlicient clasp and generally 'to improve this type of clasp. Other objects will appear from the description taken in connection with the drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the clasp in operative connection with the garment and the other parts of the supporter;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of one member of the clasp;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the other member of the clasp;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the latter member;

Fig. 5 is a central cross sectional view showing the clasp members in assembled position and showing the arrangement of the cloth of the garment in dotted lines;

Fig. 6 is a view similar'to Fig. 4 and showing another form of the button or tab member.

As clearly shown in the drawings, the usual limb encircling member 10 has its ends connected by means of the ring 11. A tape 12 is secured to this ring and has mounted thereon the two members 13 and 111 of the clasp. As clearly shown in Fig. 2, one member of the clasp consists of a flat piece of sheet material having a rectangular aperture 16 at one end through which the tape 12 is adapted to be inserted. A longitudinal slot 18 is formed in this member and has an enlarged end 17 adjacent the aperture 16. The other member 14E of the clasp has a slot 19 at one end corresponding to the aperture 16 the member 13. At the end 4ing in the form of Fig. l with the spacing block 23 embodied therein may be arranged with one sharp bend 22. By this arrangement the tab or button extends along one side of the bend 21 and a contact therebetween gives the same reinforcing action as the spacing piece 23 in Fig. 4L. It will be noted that in both of these forms that the button is joined to the body portion by a double or f5 bend, the only diiierence being that in Fig. 6 the two sides of the bend 22 .are 1n contact, whereas in Fig. -1 they are separated and the spacing piece 23 inserted therebetween. It will be observed that because of this 8 or double bend that the tab is connected to the body portion in a strong but yielding manner. If the tab were connected to the body portion by a neck which extended at right angles to both. the tab and body portion, any movement of the tab rela tive to the body portion would be localized at the two 90 bends and fracture at one of these places would soon occur. lVith the arrangement herein disclosed any movement of the tab relative to the body is distributed more or less throughout the two bends and consequently no small limited area of the neck is subjected to all of the deformation. This means that the clasp member with the S bend isadapted for long service. This clasp is adapted particularly to be made from a flexible non-metallic material such as Celluloid, and as this substance has no great strength it is necessary to construct the device in such a manner that stresses in the material will not be localized and the parts will be reinforced as much as possible. 1t is obvious that the construction herein disclosed conforms to these requirements.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

1. A garment clasp comprising a member liayino an a erture formed therein a eooA @ratingI member Off 'flexible sheen material comprising a body portion anda tabvthe latter adapted to be inserted through the said aperture, the said tab being arranged-14 Substantially parallel to but offset from its bodyf :portion andI Connected .t0 the 'latterv 'byr a neck having two revei'sely arrangedeubstantially 180 bends therein.

2. A memberof flexible sheet material for a garment Clasp eomprisinga body portion anda tab Varranged substantially parallel to but offset from the body portion and oon- .neeted to the latter by anieol; havingre-4 verselyv arranged substantially 1800 bends' forced.

Copies of.V this'patent 3.A flexible member of' sheet material for a :garment clasp comprising la body portion, a flat tab arranged substantially parallel to but offsetV from the body portion and conneetedetdthe latter -by a neel; having-two reversely arranged substantially 180O bends thereinzand a spacing member interposed` between the tab and the part ofthe neck between the (two bends.

et. A flexible member ofslieet material-for.V

a garment claspeomprisinga body portion, a flat tab'offe'et from said body portion and arranged so that the end ofthe bodygporti'on isr Opposite' the central par@ of the mbimd i a:curvedlneck'Veonneeting .the said end of the bodyportion'and the edge of the ta'bwhieh` overlaps the body portion? Y In testimonywhereof 'I ik my Signature.

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